Bios:  Lyons, James, Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Lyons, James
SUBMITTER: E.K. Warner
EMAIL: wgene@twd.net
DATE: Feb 06, 2000
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SURNAMES: Deviney, Harmon, Hunter, Lichenthall, Lyons, Mahon, McFarland,
Ray, Reed, Smith, Swasy
From Prof. J.T. Stewart's Indiana County Pennsylvania - Her People,
Past and Present, Published 1913

Transcribed by: E.K. Warner (wgene@twd.net) February 6th., 2000

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On June 3, 1875, Mr. Swasy married, in Blacklick township, Myrtilla
Lyons, who was born there, daughter of William and Eliza (Deviney)
Lyons, and they have had three children: Myrtle, formerly a school
teacher of Indiana county, who married J. . Elder Smith, son of John
T. Smith, of Blacklick township; Logan, at home; and Charles O., who
is now clerking for the Josephine Furnace & Coke Company of Josephine.
Pennsylvania.

James Lyons, the first of his family to settle in Indiana county,
was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1764, some years before
the Revolution. He made his home in Pennsylvania, at first in the
Conochocheague valley, moving in 1808 to Blacklick township, then
a part of Westmoreland county. His children were: Samuel, Alexander
and James.

Alexander Lyons, son of James, married Margaret McFarland, and to
them were born five children : Martha, wife of Matthew Lichenthall
of Prairie City, Ill.; James A., of Beaver county, Pa.; Mary, who
married James Reed, of Prairie City, Ill.; Eliza A., deceased; and
William, of Blacklick township, Indiana, Co., Pennsylvania.

William Lyons, son of Alexander, was born on the homestead, and followed
farming the greater part of his life. He spent some years at Steubenville,
Ohio, where he kept store, later returning to the homestead, where
he cultivated a tract of 118 acres now owned by George Clawson. He
made a number of improvements on that place, where he spent the remainder
of his life, dying there Jan. 31, 1881. He is buried in the Ebenezar
cemetery in Conemaugh township. In religion he was a Presbyterian,
in political sentiment a Republican. His wife, Eliza (Deviney), daughter
of Aaron Deviney, died in 1876, on the homestead; she was a member
of the United Presbyterian Church. They had a family of ten children:
Newton died while serving in the Civil war; Martha died in 1909; Melissa
married George Harmon, of Cuba, Mo.; Alexander is deceased; William
died in infancy; Ella married Mark Hunter, of Peoria, Ill., and is
deceased; Myrtilla married John Harrison Swasy; Harriet married Harry
Mahon, of Pittsburg; Dudley lives in Westmoreland county; Luna married
Dayton Ray and resides in Youngstown, Ohio.





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